Who won Louisiana in the 1888 presidential election?

Cleveland (Democratic) carried Louisiana in 1888, winning its 8 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Louisiana have in 1888?

Louisiana cast 8 electoral votes in the 1888 presidential election.

Did Louisiana vote for the national winner in 1888?

No. Louisiana backed Cleveland, while Benjamin Harrison won the presidency nationally.

Gilded AgeLA · 8 EV

1888

Louisiana: Cleveland carries 8 EV.

Louisiana cast its 8 electoral votes for Cleveland (Democratic). National winner: Benjamin Harrison (Republican) — Louisiana voted against the national winner this cycle.

Reading the 1888 result in Louisiana

Louisiana backed Cleveland (Democratic) in the 1888 presidential election, casting 8 electoral votes for the ticket. Nationally the result broke the other way — Benjamin Harrison (Republican) won the presidency, leaving Louisiana among the states he did not carry.

It marked the 3rd consecutive election in which Louisiana backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1880. Louisiana did not move alone — neighboring Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi broke the same way in 1888. Across the 53 presidential elections Louisiana has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (29 times). The vote fell within the Gilded Age — Industrialization, narrow margins, and patronage politics.

In the national count, Benjamin Harrison took 233 of the 401 electoral votes, against Grover Cleveland's 168. Though Benjamin Harrison won the Electoral College, Grover Cleveland drew more of the national popular vote — 48.63% to 47.8%.

The 1888 national map

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